Daniel Massimino

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Hello! I’m Daniel, a PhD student at MIT in Mechanical Engineering. I am currently working in the Fabrication Integrated Design Lab (FIDL). I am investigating using glass additive manufacturing as a building material in partnership with Evenline Inc.

I am broadly interested in the development of new construction materials. This interest stems from the combination of my BS in Civil Engineering from Columbia University, five years as a Boeing manufacturing engineer at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility, and my current studies as a mechanical engineer.

Advancing Sustainable 3D Printing: The Feasibility of Recycled Glass as a Building Material With Additive Manufacturing

2024 • Conference Paper

Together with Evenline Inc.., we developed a method for 3D printing recycled glass products. As detailed in the paper, we used material characterization data to estimate temperature–viscosity curves. From these curves, we were able to print multiple glass compositions using the same glass 3D printer. Further development included printing recycled window and container glass. Window glass was also printed onto sheets of window glass to demonstrate rib-on-plate opportunities and compatibility with coatings.

Evenline’s 3D Glass Printer 3 (3DGP3) in use at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).

Recycled Pilkington float glass printed into a masonry unit.

Rib on plate concept using extruded Pilkington recycled cullet on Pilkington float glass.

Pilkington float glass printed onto floating glass samples with different coatings. Proof of concept showed that coatings retain effectiveness after printing.

Conference: Challenging Glass

Contributions:
Writing, material characterization process, connecting material properties to
temperature-viscosity model

Team:
Michael Stern, Ethan Townsend, Daniel Massimino, Kaitlyn Becker

Paper: link

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